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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Reflections from the KGB Museum in Vilnius. ?Standing in the cellar of the KG?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Reflections from the KGB Museum in Vilnius. “Standing in the cellar of the KGB prison, admiring the ingenuously designed torture cells, retracing the final steps of the prisoners on their journey from the condemned cells to the execution yard, it?s impossible not to think of Vladimir Putin bemoaning the fall of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century. Putin made his career in the same KGB that murdered and tortured for decades in Lithuania and its neighboring republics; the longing for the good old days must sometimes grow unspeakable.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).